Romelu Lukaku is a football freak who is a danger to Premier League defences – and PlayStation consoles.

Spend some time in the company of this articulate 20-year-old Belgian and, provided there is no game station in arm’s reach, you quickly realise that his fictional countryman Hercule Poirot isn’t the only one with the bright answers.

With seven goals for club and country already this season, the on-loan Lukaku is Chelsea’s loss and Everton’s gain.

He believes that in Goodison Park boss Roberto Martinez he has discovered a kindred spirit capable of taking his game to new heights and building on last season’s loan spell at West Brom.

Jose Mourinho look away now.

“Everton was the stage I was looking for, playing in a team where my team-mates are more experienced at international level and on the European scene,” Lukaku said.

“Also Roberto Martinez is playing the Spanish style of football – football I like. I find La Liga very interesting.”

The man who cost Chelsea £18million also revealed they made it a condition of his loan that he went to a Premier League club.

The young Belgian has scored seven goals for club and country this season [GETTY]

Everton was the stage I was looking for, playing in a team where my team-mates are more experienced at international level and on the European scene

Romelu Lukaku

“There were a lot of teams interested, a lot,” he added. “I don’t know how many. My agent called me on the last night (before the transfer window closed) and he said, ‘All the other teams wanted you but we scratched them and a few in Europe as well. You’re not allowed to go to Europe.’ So I said, ‘Can I go to Everton?’

“At the time I got the call from Mr Martinez, I called Kevin (Everton’s Mirallas, a fellow Belgian) straight away and asked him to come to my room. We talked for two, three hours. He spoke to me about last year and about this year, the pre-season and the new way of working.

“I spoke to Marouane Fellaini as well, who was there for a lot of years. It was in the David Moyes era but he worked a little bit under Martinez too, and those two convinced me to go to Everton.”

But playing computer games with Mirallas should carry a danger warning. “I play computer games, Lukaku said. “Sometimes it’s just to improve my game but I’ve smashed one up!

“It was when I was playing with Kevin. I got frustrated. We were playing a game and I don’t know what happened.

“My goalkeeper made an error – I don’t want to reveal his name – in the last minute of extra-time. I just twisted the console around and broke it – game over. But I beat him the next week.”

Lukaku says former Chelsea striker Dider Drogba is his hero so much so he even celebrates like him [GETTY]

Lukaku’s eyes lit up like a kid at Christmas as, right on cue, Everton’s media and publicity manager Darren Griffiths interrupted the interview to present the striker with a new console. “I’m not going to smash this one!” beamed Lukaku.

But Lukaku is no spoilt child – far from it – but football has to be taken seriously, even at PlayStation level. “I’m like a football freak but he (Martinez) is one as well.

“Every time I’ve noticed something in a game at the weekend, so has he. When we were playing Villa, I told him I had watched (Tottenham’s) Roberto Soldado heading the ball against Villa the previous week. The cameras up in the stands showed how much space he had.

“I said (to Martinez), ‘Did you notice?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, you have to play this and that.’ It’s good working with someone like that, who has the same drive and ambition.”

Having achieved his first ambition of providing a comfortable life for his parents and family, it’s now all about becoming one of the best players in the world for Lukaku. Flash cars and bling have no place in his world.

“The more money you have, the bigger the house, the bigger car, bigger things, blah, blah, blah... That’s not my ambition,” he stressed. “My ambition is being the best at everything, winning games, scoring goals.

Lukaku's main goal in football was to make his parents proud [GETTY]

Everton was the stage I was looking for, playing in a team where my team-mates are more experienced at international level and on the European scene

Romelu Lukaku

“My goal in playing football was first of all to make my parents proud and then to provide for my family. Those two things I’ve done. My parents are fine, my family is fine. My brother is playing as well.

“Now it’s (about) my career. If I play well, good things will come. If you are a good player, you will get recognised for your talent.”

In addition to putting in the hard yards on the training pitch, Lukaku spends hours studying videos of top strikers. “Football is my passion,” he said. “I observe a lot of great players because if you want to be one of them you have to see their development on and off the pitch.

“I try to inspire myself watching those clips. I also watch basketball players and American football players because these are sports that are very demanding, far more demanding than football because they play with concussion and very bad injuries, but their determination and drive to be successful are inspiring.”

So who inspires him? Little surprise that Didier Drogba, who many people liken to the former Anderlecht hitman, gets an honourable mention. “When he got older he got better and better,” Lukaku said. “Some players have arrived at their peak when they get older, at like 29 or 30, but he was the best at 32. How?

“But when you start working with him you see the way he’s preparing for games, the way he’s training.

“Cristiano Ronaldo is impressive because I heard a lot of stories about him. I think Robin van Persie as well is somebody who is improving and improving. He is a player who had a lot of injuries but became injury-free and the top scorer in the league two years in a row.

“Those players inspire me because you want to be one of them. You want to be as successful as them.”

It’s why there are no distractions in Lukaku’s life as he prepares to face Spurs at Goodison Park this afternoon.

He said: “I want to get up there as quickly as possible and stay there as long as possible. I want to be one of the best ever. It’s easy to get there but staying there is the most difficult thing.”

It’s all about being rounded in a football world of temptation, something his national side are keen on promoting.

That led to Lukaku playing table football with Belgium fans last season, while Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet served drinks and Chelsea’s Eden Hazard did a spot of housework.

Lukaku said: “When we played Holland last season we challenged the fans that everything had to be red on the road into Belgium. So when the Dutch were driving in on their coach, houses were red, trees were red, everything... We had pictures of trees, houses, football pitches, bushes covered in red.

“In return we had to do something. I had to go to a pub and play a game of table football. I was with Simon Mignolet and he had to serve beer to the fans. Hazard helped a kid do up his room and did some washing up.”